IMPERFECT
\ɪmpˈɜːfɛkt], \ɪmpˈɜːfɛkt], \ɪ_m_p_ˈɜː_f_ɛ_k_t]\
Definitions of IMPERFECT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient.
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Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
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Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective.
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The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense.
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To make imperfect.
By Oddity Software
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Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient.
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Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
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Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective.
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The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense.
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To make imperfect.
By Noah Webster.
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Wanting in completeness, correctness, or excellence; wanting in some organ necessary to usual activity; incomplete; indicating that tense in grammar which expresses past action as uncompleted or continuous at the time denoted.
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In grammar, the form of the verb denoting incomplete action.
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Imperfectly.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Imperfectly.
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Incomplete: defective: not fulfilling its design: liable to err.
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IMPERFECTNESS, IMPERFECTION.
By Daniel Lyons
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Imperfectly.
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Not perfect; incomplete; defective.
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Indicating past action.
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The imperfect tense.
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Imperfectness.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Not perfect or complete; defective; subject to defect; liable to err; wanting either stamens or pistils; incomplete. The imperfect tense denotes an action in time past, then present, but not finished. Imperfect number, one which is not equal to the sum of its aliquot parts.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Not completed or finished; defective; in gram., applied to the tense of a verb expressing unfinished action, or time not yet complete, as I was eating.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Thomas Sheridan
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